Social Origins of Islam : Mind, Economy, Discourse.

By: Bamyeh, Mohammed AMaterial type: TextTextPublisher: Minneapolis : University of Minnesota Press, 1999Copyright date: ©1999Description: 1 online resource (332 pages)Content type: text Media type: computer Carrier type: online resourceISBN: 9780816689842Subject(s): Arabian Peninsula -- Civilization | Arabian Peninsula -- Social conditions | Islam -- OriginGenre/Form: Electronic books.Additional physical formats: Print version:: Social Origins of Islam : Mind, Economy, DiscourseDDC classification: 297 LOC classification: BP55 -- .B36 1999ebOnline resources: Click to View
Contents:
Intro -- Contents -- Introduction -- Part I: The Ground -- ONE. The Ideology of the Horizons -- Horizon, Vision, Settlement -- Halting and Discourse -- The Camel, the Path, and the Marketplace -- TWO. Socioeconomy and the Horizon of Thought -- Sedentarization -- Money, Trade, and Abstract Thought -- Mecca -- The Nomadic Flux -- Kinda -- THREE. Social Time, Death, and the Ideal -- Rendering the Experience -- Idealization and the Past -- Mortality and the Future -- Waiting -- FOUR. Pre-Islamic Ontotheology and the Method of Knowledge -- Paganism and the Idea of the Ritual -- Reformers, Hanifism, Pagan Monotheism -- Examples and Commentary -- FIVE. The Discourse and the Path -- Forms, Codes,Words -- Nature, Text, Ruins -- The Wandering Logic -- Sources of Structural Stability -- Part II: The Faith -- SIX. Prophetic Constitution -- The Land Dreams of a Prophet -- Constitution of Sagehood: Knowledge, Foreknowledge -- The Tear of the Poet and the Fear of the Prophet: Failures of Belonging -- SEVEN. The House of the Umma and the Spider Web of the Tribe -- The Tribe -- The Ruins of the Tribe -- Fitnah,Hijra,War -- The Satanic Verses and Their Background -- The Boundaries of the Umma -- Hudaybiyyah and the Paradigms of the Umma -- EIGHT. Austerity, Power, and Worldly Exchange -- Death, Subjectivity, and Identity -- Austerity, Justice, Perishing: Moses and 'Ubayd -- God's Contracts -- War and the Code of Justice -- Fate and the Legitimacy of Acquisition -- NINE. In Lieu of a Conclusion: The Origins, the System, and the Accident -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- J -- K -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- Q -- R -- S -- T -- U -- W -- Y -- Z.
Summary: The story of the origins of Islam provides a rich and suggestive example of sweeping cultural transformation. Incorporating both innovation and continuity, Islam built upon the existing cultural patterns among the peoples of the Arabian peninsula even as it threatened to eradicate these same patterns. In this provocative interdisciplinary study, Mohammed A. Bamyehcombines perspectives from sociology, literary studies, anthropology, and economic history to examine the cultural ecology that fostered Islam.
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Intro -- Contents -- Introduction -- Part I: The Ground -- ONE. The Ideology of the Horizons -- Horizon, Vision, Settlement -- Halting and Discourse -- The Camel, the Path, and the Marketplace -- TWO. Socioeconomy and the Horizon of Thought -- Sedentarization -- Money, Trade, and Abstract Thought -- Mecca -- The Nomadic Flux -- Kinda -- THREE. Social Time, Death, and the Ideal -- Rendering the Experience -- Idealization and the Past -- Mortality and the Future -- Waiting -- FOUR. Pre-Islamic Ontotheology and the Method of Knowledge -- Paganism and the Idea of the Ritual -- Reformers, Hanifism, Pagan Monotheism -- Examples and Commentary -- FIVE. The Discourse and the Path -- Forms, Codes,Words -- Nature, Text, Ruins -- The Wandering Logic -- Sources of Structural Stability -- Part II: The Faith -- SIX. Prophetic Constitution -- The Land Dreams of a Prophet -- Constitution of Sagehood: Knowledge, Foreknowledge -- The Tear of the Poet and the Fear of the Prophet: Failures of Belonging -- SEVEN. The House of the Umma and the Spider Web of the Tribe -- The Tribe -- The Ruins of the Tribe -- Fitnah,Hijra,War -- The Satanic Verses and Their Background -- The Boundaries of the Umma -- Hudaybiyyah and the Paradigms of the Umma -- EIGHT. Austerity, Power, and Worldly Exchange -- Death, Subjectivity, and Identity -- Austerity, Justice, Perishing: Moses and 'Ubayd -- God's Contracts -- War and the Code of Justice -- Fate and the Legitimacy of Acquisition -- NINE. In Lieu of a Conclusion: The Origins, the System, and the Accident -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- J -- K -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- Q -- R -- S -- T -- U -- W -- Y -- Z.

The story of the origins of Islam provides a rich and suggestive example of sweeping cultural transformation. Incorporating both innovation and continuity, Islam built upon the existing cultural patterns among the peoples of the Arabian peninsula even as it threatened to eradicate these same patterns. In this provocative interdisciplinary study, Mohammed A. Bamyehcombines perspectives from sociology, literary studies, anthropology, and economic history to examine the cultural ecology that fostered Islam.

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